Sentence examples for contraption called a from inspiring English sources

To help him study, he invested in a contraption called a "Gumption-Reviver".

In reading about Victorian seaside resorts, I've come across several passing mentions of a contraption called a bathing machine.

A man was hovering over an 80-year-old contraption called a jump iron, hot enough to mold fabrics into shapes they will be unlikely to forget.

To discuss: In an optional session of a Northwestern course on human sexuality, a man brought a woman to climax, on stage, using a contraption called a "fucksaw".

For court appearances, they started putting him in a Hannibal Lecter-like contraption called a spit mask to protect the officers.

In one scene a small-town sheriff is heard muttering about this newfangled contraption called a Walkman, which points down a "slippery slope" of juvenile distraction.

Here, he listened to the squeals of his children and the hum of a contraption called an air conditioner.

But, as I found one day in Tahoe City when I was looking longingly at a rack of rental bikes and noticed among them an ungainly contraption called an Alley Cat -- a one-wheeled cycle with handlebars, a seat and an extremely long, horizontally curved front end -- bike touring with a child not yet strong enough to power her own craft is still an option.

Instead, she came up with a contraption called Medusa, a battery-operated camera attached to a lure.

There's a contraption called "Coaster Rollers," with a track that glides across acorn-shaped objects with the same diameter as a circle; the "Enigma Café," where a boy named Wyatt attempted to fit T-shaped wooden blocks into a square board; and a square-wheeled trike, the highlight of the upper floor.

Frank Polifka, who farms wheat and milo, invented a contraption called the Windhexe, which creates a tornado-force wind within a steel funnel.